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Bound for the promised land : African American religion and the great migration / Milton C. Sernett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sernett, Milton C., 1942-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- C. Eric Lincoln series on the Black experience.
- The C. Eric Lincoln series on the Black experience
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Religion.
- African Americans.
- Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970.
- Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.
- Migration, Internal.
- Rural-urban migration--United States--History--20th century.
- Rural-urban migration.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- United States--Church history--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Discusses the migration of African-Americans from the south to the north after WWI through the 1940s and the effect this had on African-American churches and religions.
- Contents:
- Down in Egyptland
- "Northbound Their Cry"
- The Second Exodus
- "Our Wandering Zion"
- "Into the Promised Land"
- When Chicago Was Canaan
- A Heaven All Their Own
- Return to the South.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-333) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612919718
- 9781282919716
- 1282919717
- 9780822382454
- 0822382458
- OCLC:
- 850215854
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